Garlic leaf blight caused by Stemphylium solani is a serious disease in vegetable-growing areas of China (28). Symptoms of the disease start as small white spots (1 to 3 mm) enlarging to elongated purple necrotic lesions along the vein, followed by blighting of the leaf tips. Similar symptoms were produced by culture filtrates of S. solani, and a strong correlation was also found between garlic...

The die-back of pistachio is one of the most important diseases affecting pistachio trees reducing yield production. In commercial fields, sampling was done from nine different pistachio production areas in Mahvelat, Khorasan Razavi province during 2008-2010. In each orchard, samples were taken from tree branches with canker during spring and summer seasons. Fungal species were identified based...

Sugar beet, a major sugar source, is subject to foliar diseases that can impact yield and quality. In 2019, three spots from two different fields were observed with atypical fungal growth. moist chamber, fungus grew these had dark conidia (average 28 × 17 μm) in irregular clusters (Figure 1). Pure cultures obtained by single spore transfer. All isolates identified as Stemphylium species (Wouden...